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Exhibitions

Past

Statement

Just as a painter putting line to paper is attracted by natural forms, so I am attracted to natural phenomena when I release the shutter, it is fortunate that the machine we call ‘camera’ captures only that which is present before its lens. When imagination draws a line to boast creativity, a paintings without reality results. A photograph, however, is anchored in reality. I photograph to capture existing phenomena. Thinking about this day by day, the mountain ceases to be a mountain, the cloud is no cloud, things left behind are not left behind. . . maybe I begin to see what only I can see. Releasing the shutter, developing film, printing on paper - I accumulate impressions. I enjoy having these impressions in a leather box, in a drawer at home, or in an album.

Up to now I have been working in the form of installation. What overflows from one photograph would flow into the next piece, and in two's and threes, the groups would create a combined effect, like the layered notes of an orchestra.

But recently my thoughts are more focused on the individual incident - the urge to dwell deeper into each element is rising slowly. A landscape or an incident around me is cut out into a square piece of photograph. What that square piece will inspire in you... perhaps it is something that already exists inside of you.

Bio

YAMAMOTO MASAO

BORN
1957 Gamagori-City in Aichi Prefecture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano - Italia
Quinzaine photographique Nantaise – France
2006
Camera Obscura, Paris
Hackelbury Fine Art, London
Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Sincerite, Toyohashi
2005
A Thousand Hounds, Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV
é: ?, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2004
A Thousand Hounds, Seibu Department Store, New York, NY
A Thousand Hounds, KeihanGallery, Osaka, Japan
A Thousand Hounds, University of Maryland Baltimore, MD
Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
é, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
Nakazora, Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Nakazora, Chiesa dei SS.Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo, Italy
Omizuao, YanceyRichardson Gallery , New york
Nakazora, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
Santoka, Gallery Sincerite,Toyohashi
2002
Nakazora, S.K.Josefsberg Studio, Portland
Nakazora, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
2001
Nakazora, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NewYork
2000
A Box of "Ku" XI , Sepia International , NewYork
A Box of "Ku" XI , Spiral Gallery , Tokyo
1999
A Box of" Ku" X, Gallery Sincerite,Toyohashi
A Box of" Ku" X, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
1998
A Box of" Ku" X, Stephen Wirtz Gallery,San Francisco
1997
A Box of" Ku" IX, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
A Box of" Ku" IX,Shapiro Gallery,San Francisco
1996
A Box of" Ku" VIII, Yancey Richardson Gallery,NewYork
1995
A Box of" Ku" VI, Gallery Nayuta,Yokohama
1994
A Box of" Ku" IV, Parco,Kichijyoji
A Box of" Ku" V , Shapiro Gallery,San Francisco
1993
A Box of" Ku" I, Gallery White Art,Tokyo
A Box of" Ku" II, Hosomi Gallery ,Tokyo
A Box of" Ku" III, GallerySincerite,Toyohashi

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003
Japanese Photography 1970's-1980's, S.K.Josefsberge Studio, Portland
2000
'Chorus of Light' Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
1999
Modena per la Fotografia 1999 , Modena, Italia Holnd Fstvl, Amsterdam, Holland
1998
"Waterproof" Expo'98 Lisboa
Medialogue Photography in Contemporary Japanese Art '98 , Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Under/Exposed , Stockholm
1996
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
Contemporary Japanese Photography,Jackson Fine Art,Atlanta
1995
The 1st Tokyo International Photo Biennale,A Box of" Ku" VII
A Box of" Ku" VII, Lisa Sette Gallery , Scottsdale
A Box of" Ku" VII, Catherine Edelman Gallery , Chicago
1994
"Flower Studies" Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco
"intimate memories" A.O.I Gallery , Santa Fe
1990
"Spiral Take Art Collection" Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo
1988
Fotofest '88, Huston, U.S.A.
"New From Tokyo 11 Japanese Photographers"
"Japanese Avantgardo" Ken Damy Gallery, Mirano, Itary
"New Age Art Exhibition", Shinjuku Isetan department store, Tokyo
1987
Torino International Photo Biennale , Torino , Italy

COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The International Center of Photography, New York
Center for Creative Photography
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Portland Art Museum, OR, USA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2005 é, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2003 Omizuao, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2003 Santoka, Harunatsuakifuyu Sousho , Japan
2002 The Pass Of Green Leaves, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
2001 Nakazora, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.
1998 A box of ku, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A.